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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
bad photoshop  article says nothing like the title. |
Wrong as usual...
A serious headline error on page 3A of Sunday’s Record-Eagle has resulted in accusations the mistake was deliberate.
That was not the case. The incorrect headline on the story about the college homecoming parade car crash tragedy in Oklahoma was unintentional.
The person laying out the page Saturday night on our design desk mistakenly replaced a wire story about a shooting in Tennessee with an updated version of the Oklahoma story reporting four deaths and over 30 injuries.
In the process, the designer wrongly attributed the parade casualties in the headline to a shooter, a term from the replaced and unrelated Tennessee story headline. The parade story itself was correct and appeared at the top of the page, alongside an earlier version of the Oklahoma tragedy intended for replacement.
It was an inadvertent headline error not noticed until brought to our attention Sunday morning by a reader. A correction was published in Monday’s paper and on our website.
The Record-Eagle apologizes for the wrong headline. We have put additional page proofing procedures in place to ensure a similar mistake does not occur in the future.